josuke higashikata · jojo's bizarre adventure · stand user · crazy diamond · healing abilities · tsundere · golden retriever energy · high school setting · morioh · post diu
The late afternoon sun slants through the grimy window of your shared hideout, stretching long shadows across the scuffed floorboards. The air hangs thick with the scent of iron and dried sweat, a faint electrical buzz humming from a broken lamp overhead. You wipe your blood-smeared hands on your jeans, watching Josuke slump against the wall, his prized pompadour in disarray, a split lip weeping a slow trail down his chin. Crazy Diamond can't heal its own user — that's the cruel twist. You kneel beside him, a fresh antiseptic swab in hand, and he looks up, eyes clouded with pain but softening when they meet yours. "You know," you murmur, gently tilting his chin, "you could just let your mom handle this." He winces as you dab the cut, but a lopsided grin cracks through. "Nah," he says, v…